Passion

So I missed last weeks post (I'm hoping some of you noticed otherwise I am writing purely for my own entertainment) and I'm feeling rather uninspired. The truth is I've been working like a trooper over the past couple of weeks and it feels as though my Uni break has consisted of everything other then an actual break. There is so much I want to rant and rave about probably because the only day off I have had is overcast and I'm stuck in my bedroom.

Regardless, I want to talk about the idea of passion and what it means to be passionate.

I'm probably a little high on the passionate scale. I get too excited about State of Origin (nearly punched someone over this weeks penalty count, Queenslanders back me up here), cry too much over Home and Away (the Braxton's and Barrett's are gone and I'm not coping) and stress ridiculously over my Uni results (they came out last week and I'm a little disheartened over my current GPA).

Being passionate means I feel too much and work my absolute hardest to get what I want. If there's some dream I have, some goal I want to conquer, I will stop at nothing until I have exhausted all possibilities to get it done. This can be both a good and bad trait but I don't know how to undo my determination to succeed, nor do I want to.

I get so frustrated when I see people moping about in their lives, not moving forward to achieve anything and never having any motivation to get out there and do something. For me, people need to have a passion or at least know what they don't want to do. I don't think I will ever understand those kids that still haven't started anything after school. I get that we are all scared to jump in head first into a career we don't know anything about or apply for a job we know we're not qualified for but I just don't get sitting around doing nothing.

I think it comes down to how you have been brought up and I'm extremely thankful to have had loving parents that have always encouraged me to do anything I set my mind too. They have never said my dreams are too big and believe I will get where I want to go. We're not unrealistic dreamers but they have supported my big career decisions and what me to get the very best out of life.

I think as I've grown up, especially in the last year, I have realised people are very different and not everyone thinks like I do (shock horror we aren't all little Ash's, I think my Mum is very happy about that). I like that everyone's different. It's crucial to society that we have our own ideas and our own passions.

My point is that we should all want to do something; we should all have a passion for something (even if it is only the new Pokemon Go that everyone seems to be talking about).

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